Modernist literature and European identity
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Modernist literature and European identity
（Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature）
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Modernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus from European modernism to modernist Europe, and shows how the notion of Europe was constructed in a variety of modernist texts. Authors such as Ford Madox Ford, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Aime Cesaire, and Nancy Cunard each developed their own notion of Europe. They engaged in transnational networks and experimented with new forms of writing, supporting or challenging a European ideal. Building on insights gained from global modernism and network theory, this book suggests that rather than defining Europe through a set of core principles, we may also regard it as an open or weak construct, a crossroads where different authors and views converged and collided.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Backbone of the World: Ford Madox Ford and Anglo-French Tradition
2. The Age of a Mistaken Nationalism: T.S. Eliot and the Idea of Europe
3. Triangular Politics: Gertrude Stein's Ambiguous French Network
4. Assez de ce scandale: Aime Cesaire, Surrealism and Europe
Epilogue
Index
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